Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wotjayla in 1920 in in Krakow, Poland. After World War II he entered a reopened seminary and became a priest in 1946. He became Pope in 1978 and severed the second longest Papal term since St. Peter. He was beatified on the feast of Divine Mercy, which he implemented when he canonized St. Faustina, and was canonized himself on April 27, 2014.

Pope St. John Paul II, pray for us!

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